Improvement in combined refrigerators and sideboards



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GRANVILLE L. PACKARD, OF EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED REFRIGERATORS AND SIDEBOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,186, dated May 20, 1873 application filed February 26, 12573:

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GRANVILLE L. PACK- ARD, of Everett, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Refrigerating-Sideboard; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented iu the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 denotes a front elevation of a sideand provided with one or more shelves, supported above the top of the main portion in the usual manner. B B are the doors opening into the interior of the sideboard. Within the interior or chamber 0 I dispose a refrigerator of any desirable shape or kind. This refrigerator, if desirable, may occupy the whole of the chamber 0 but I prefer to divide the same by a vertical partition, P, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so as to form a dry chamber distinct from the refrigerating-chamber, such chamber D having a door, d, to close and form an air-tight compartment. F is another vertical partition, which extends transversely across the chamber 0, and constitutes one of the walls of the ice-receptacle J, the bottom b of the latter inclining backward, and having a metallic covering, 0, which terminates in a gutter communicating with a waste-receiving or water pipe, by which the liquid produced by the melting of the ice may be conducted or conveyed to any desirable location, the said ice-receptacle being provided with a sliding door, H, by which access may be readily had to the ice-chamber. G is a space or chamber below the ice-receptacle, such chamber G communicating with the refrigerating-chamber L,

which is provided with any desirable number ofshelves, e 0, arranged horizontally, as shown, and for the reception of any articles of food, whether cooked or uncooked. I l are drawers, which are disposed above the refrigerating and dry chambers, the same being to receive silver plate, dishes, napkins, 860. The chamher I) may also be used to store glasses, plate, and other things which it maybe desired to keep dry.

From the above it will be seen that by my invention 1 so combine all the essentials of a sideboard and refrigerator as to producea useful and compact piece of furniture.

I do not claim either of the inventions. as shown and described in Letters Patent No. 68,723 or 107,180, as my invention'differs from both of them. .Nor do i claim the broad combination of a refrigerator and sideboard, irrespective of construction, as I am aware that such is not new.

Having described my invention, what I claim isp The improved refrigerating-sideboard, as described, the same consisting of the case A, constructed internally so as to serve as a rejrigerator, and provided with the dry-air chamber l) and one or more drawers, I, the said.

case having a flat top and a back-piece, all as shown and described.

GRANVILLE L. PACKARD.

Witnesses 1 P. HALE, F. (J. HALE. 

